Condominiums & HOAs

A condominium complex owns everything behind the master meter: the private main that runs between buildings, the branches into each one, the valves, and the irrigation that waters the common areas. When any of it leaks, the association pays the bill, the board has to approve the fix, the manager has to coordinate it around residents, and everyone wants to know whether it's going to happen again. We've worked main breaks at Kitsap condo complexes at midnight under tripod lights and we've done the quiet overnight investigations that keep those nights from happening.

The HOA complexes around Silverdale, Bremerton, Port Orchard, Poulsbo and Bainbridge were largely built from the 1970s through the 1990s, which puts their private mains at the end of expected life at the same time. The pattern of one break, then another, then a third is a main telling the board what it's made of. Our role is to find the leak fast when it happens, fix it with the site secured, and give the board a written assessment with photos that turns the next one from an emergency into a planned replacement in the reserve study.

What usually goes wrong, and what we do about it